Coronavirus Super Thread ( merged )

[The Real Maroonblood]

15 minutes ago, Ron Burgundy said:

Just plodding on. Nothings changed.

👍

Hopefully changes for the better soon.

Edited December 16, 2020 by The Real Maroonblood

[Enzo Chiefo]

1 minute ago, Ron Burgundy said:

Are they making a new film "Carry on Christmas"?

 

That is as hilarious as it is imbecilic.

 

Packed lunches all round. Tupperware sales through the roof.

😁. It will be different walking the streets this year with a turkey under our arm, listening out for house parties

[The Real Maroonblood]

13 minutes ago, Governor Tarkin said:

Would roll about with that Steedman lassie.

Alison has a fair pair of chebs.

Edited December 16, 2020 by The Real Maroonblood

[Maroon Sailor]

Stuff the turkey just get on it

[ri Alban]

3 hours ago, Governor Tarkin said:

 

Mine was for calling you the same thing.

 

I knew you wouldn't mind.

Been called worse, GT. And I am one now and then. A good one at times anaw. 

[ri Alban]

2 hours ago, Pasquale for King said:

I got congratulated at first for circumnavigating the swear filter, then I overdid it and got thrown off a thread  for it.

Did it start with a c?

[manaliveits105]

“One is better than 2 “ 

enjoy your lonely Christmas 🎄 

 

 

 

[Taffin]

"Greece, similarly, has a nightly curfew, although its lockdown rules are far stricter. Under these restrictions, in place until 7 January, people must text a government number asking permission to leave their home."

 

😂😂

[manaliveits105]

10 minutes ago, Taffin said:

"Greece, similarly, has a nightly curfew, although its lockdown rules are far stricter. Under these restrictions, in place until 7 January, people must text a government number asking permission to leave their home."

 

😂😂

Christ don’t tell her that

[Jambo-Jimbo]

33 minutes ago, jonesy said:

Hiding a bottle of the good stuff up the turkey's cavity in case the impending alcohol ban comes into force  

 

Yeh, best to hide the alcohol, big bad covid gets even a sniff of booze and it'll zero right in on you.

[Mac_fae_Gillie]

1 hour ago, Mikey1874 said:

Time will tell, by late January if looser restrictions over Christmas were worth it. 

 

Loads of scientists/ medical experts criticising it. But totally understand giving people a break. Some of the stories in media show how isolated a lot of people have been. 

Think lot of people would just ignore the rules at xmas to visit family and be pretty hard to enforce just can't see police arresting folks or turning them around mid journey for taking kids to see the Grandparents. But it is going to mirror the USA's Thanksgiving peek and taking us into Flu season could be terrible, many family visits will be the cause of death for thier loved ones with a vaccine roll out just starting seems pure crazy to risk it. Think the ruling parties are chickening out on this, should ban such travel but not enforce it.

[redjambo]

Sorry, I can't think of a ginger-related joke off the top of my head, but in the meantime:

 

Scottish numbers: 16 December 2020

Summary

• 689 new cases of COVID-19 reported [-156]
• 38 new reported death(s) of people who have tested positive [+14]
• 49 people were in intensive care yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19 [+4]
• 1,031 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19 [+35]
• 13,825 new tests for COVID-19 that reported results – 5.9% of these were positive [+683; -1.5%]

[redjambo]

Latest per-100,000 case figures around the NHS boards:

 

Scotland 13 [-2].

 

Ayrshire 25 [+3], Borders 16 [+3],  Lothian 15 [-4], Tayside 15 [+6], Grampian 14 [-1], Lanarkshire 14 [-5], Fife 12 [-6], Forth Valley 10 [-3], Greater Glasgow 9 [-8].

 

The rest: less than 6.

[JudyJudyJudy]

11 hours ago, ri Alban said:

I got papped aff the tory thread for eff all. It seems using a certain swear by using a different word is a red card offence. Why is the C word such a big no no everywhere. Personally I think its a great word. It hits the spot. 

I love the C word. It can now be used as a term of endearment as well as an insult.  Not many words can .  I recall a great story i read about Helen Mirren.  She was making a film in America and went to the film stage for the first day of shooting and she exclaimed " Good morning C**** " as a term of endearment. However since its the good old USA where irony does not insist her greeting went down like a lead balloon. They must have been shocked that a " lady" who had played the Queen would come out with language like that   

[Weakened Offender]

59 minutes ago, Barack said:

And if anyone gets lippy, belted where they stand or sit.

 

All the tough liberations on this thread would stand up to that nonsense if it was ever considered here. Mark my words. We're talking about proper heroes that crossed tiers to have a pint in a baltic beer garden. 😁

[Jambo-Jimbo]

58 minutes ago, jonesy said:

I drink my wine out of a coffee mug. Confuses the Covid, and gets me pi$hed double-quick. Win-win.

 

Good thinking, gotta stay one step ahead of this smart cookie.

[Pasquale for King]

3 hours ago, jonesy said:

Aw no! What did you say...

 

Just kept saying C¥n+ 

[Pasquale for King]

1 hour ago, ri Alban said:

Did it start with a c?

Always 

[redjambo]

Today's per-100,000 7-day rates around the councils. Tiers as of Friday coming.

 

		7-day per-100,000 cases
Council Area	Tier	Today	Yesterday				14 Dec	13 Dec	12 Dec	11 Dec	10 Dec
North Ayrshire	3	191	185	+6			181	180	177	160	145
Midlothian	3	190	182	+8			163	151	133	123	93
East Ayrshire	3	183	170	+13			175	161	152	160	149
Clackmannanshire	3	171	194	-23			188	190	173	167	181
Dundee City	3	155	159	-4			165	132	125	111	104
Aberdeen City	3	154	157	-3			144	124	120	114	96
East Lothian	3	150	150	0			136	126	122	122	114
North Lanarkshire	3	146	152	-6			144	134	131	129	141
Glasgow City	3	145	154	-9			154	141	145	135	142
Renfrewshire	3	136	144	-8			145	145	142	138	128
South Lanarkshire	3	135	145	-10			141	128	134	127	124
Fife	3	134	139	-5			133	135	132	118	114
Perth and Kinross	3	127	116	+11			113	104	97	75	83
South Ayrshire	3	126	123	+3			123	116	121	111	101
Edinburgh City	3	111	112	-1			109	102	95	93	86
East Renfrewshire	3	111	128	-17			130	137	124	119	125
West Lothian	3	97	104	-7			110	117	110	125	122
West Dunbartonshire	3	93	96	-3			94	80	75	74	63
Scottish Borders	1	92	89	+3			87	82	73	56	52
East Dunbartonshire	3	90	109	-19			100	106	106	104	100
Falkirk	2	87	90	-3			91	98	98	99	104
Aberdeenshire	3	80	85	-5			80	89	83	85	86
Stirling	3	76	80	-4			84	93	97	91	90
Inverclyde	2	60	59	+1			51	57	63	57	51
Angus	2	49	59	-10			60	69	66	60	55
Argyll and Bute	2	33	35	-2			33	51	49	48	154
Na h-Eileanan Siar	1	30	26	+4			22	15	15	15	15
Dumfries & Galloway	1	19	22	-3			21	23	25	25	27
Moray	1	19	17	+2			21	25	22	19	14
Highland	1	17	19	-2			17	18	16	13	13
Orkney Islands	1	0	0	0			0	0	0	0	0
Shetland Islands	1	0	0	0			0	0	0	0	0
Scotland		111	115	-4			111	111	108	102	102

[Jambo-Jimbo]

Germany, during the first wave was one of the least affected countries in Europe.

Not so now in this second wave, 952 deaths announced yesterday and they have had 11 straight days where their death toll has exceded 400.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/16/germany-reports-record-covid-deaths-as-country-enters-christmas-lockdown

 

[frankblack]

5 minutes ago, Brian Dundas said:

In Scotland we had about 2500 deaths in the first wave, we are at about 1700 for wave two, in less than a month we will be overtaking wave one in deaths. 
 

We can’t get vaccinated quick enough!

 

A nice new stat to monitor is % of population vaccinated. 

 

We are a few months away from that number being significant.

[milky_26]

Don't know if already posted but Wales to go back into full lockdown from 28th December

[milky_26]

1 minute ago, frankblack said:

 

We are a few months away from that number being significant.

Also a more telling figure will be the number of people to have had both vaccinations as I can see a number of people not going back for the required second one

[CF11JamTart]

4 minutes ago, milky_26 said:

Don't know if already posted but Wales to go back into full lockdown from 28th December

 

Yeah..  I just heard that.  I don't think that they've announced the duration, but speculation is three weeks.

 

Great....

[milky_26]

Good to hear whittey saying while the Christmas reflection is not great it is needed to help peoples loneliness and mental health with all that has happened this year

[The Real Maroonblood]

42 minutes ago, redjambo said:

Today's per-100,000 7-day rates around the councils. Tiers as of Friday coming.

 

		7-day per-100,000 cases
Council Area	Tier	Today	Yesterday				14 Dec	13 Dec	12 Dec	11 Dec	10 Dec
North Ayrshire	3	191	185	+6			181	180	177	160	145
Midlothian	3	190	182	+8			163	151	133	123	93
East Ayrshire	3	183	170	+13			175	161	152	160	149
Clackmannanshire	3	171	194	-23			188	190	173	167	181
Dundee City	3	155	159	-4			165	132	125	111	104
Aberdeen City	3	154	157	-3			144	124	120	114	96
East Lothian	3	150	150	0			136	126	122	122	114
North Lanarkshire	3	146	152	-6			144	134	131	129	141
Glasgow City	3	145	154	-9			154	141	145	135	142
Renfrewshire	3	136	144	-8			145	145	142	138	128
South Lanarkshire	3	135	145	-10			141	128	134	127	124
Fife	3	134	139	-5			133	135	132	118	114
Perth and Kinross	3	127	116	+11			113	104	97	75	83
South Ayrshire	3	126	123	+3			123	116	121	111	101
Edinburgh City	3	111	112	-1			109	102	95	93	86
East Renfrewshire	3	111	128	-17			130	137	124	119	125
West Lothian	3	97	104	-7			110	117	110	125	122
West Dunbartonshire	3	93	96	-3			94	80	75	74	63
Scottish Borders	1	92	89	+3			87	82	73	56	52
East Dunbartonshire	3	90	109	-19			100	106	106	104	100
Falkirk	2	87	90	-3			91	98	98	99	104
Aberdeenshire	3	80	85	-5			80	89	83	85	86
Stirling	3	76	80	-4			84	93	97	91	90
Inverclyde	2	60	59	+1			51	57	63	57	51
Angus	2	49	59	-10			60	69	66	60	55
Argyll and Bute	2	33	35	-2			33	51	49	48	154
Na h-Eileanan Siar	1	30	26	+4			22	15	15	15	15
Dumfries & Galloway	1	19	22	-3			21	23	25	25	27
Moray	1	19	17	+2			21	25	22	19	14
Highland	1	17	19	-2			17	18	16	13	13
Orkney Islands	1	0	0	0			0	0	0	0	0
Shetland Islands	1	0	0	0			0	0	0	0	0
Scotland		111	115	-4			111	111	108	102	102

👍

[Nucky Thompson]

17 minutes ago, milky_26 said:

Also a more telling figure will be the number of people to have had both vaccinations as I can see a number of people not going back for the required second one

What makes you think people won't go back for their 2nd jab?

It would be a bit silly because you need the 2nd jab for it to be effective

[Taffin]

"It is not right to criminalise people who simply want to spend time with their loved ones," Johnson says

 

🤔🤔🤔

 

Have I picked up the rules incorrectly over the last 9 months...

 

 

 

[Brighton Jambo]

55 minutes ago, Jambo-Jimbo said:

Germany, during the first wave was one of the least affected countries in Europe.

Not so now in this second wave, 952 deaths announced yesterday and they have had 11 straight days where their death toll has exceded 400.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/16/germany-reports-record-covid-deaths-as-country-enters-christmas-lockdown

 

Meanwhile South Korea has just announced its running out of intensive care beds in Seoul and it’s tracing system has been overwhelmed.  

[milky_26]

20 minutes ago, Nucky Thompson said:

What makes you think people won't go back for their 2nd jab?

It would be a bit silly because you need the 2nd jab for it to be effective

Just a feeling, some people even after having it explained to them will either forget our decide they don't need the second jab. Also if any get some sort of symptoms that look like covid19 they will be even more apprehensive about getting the second one. 

[Nucky Thompson]

5 minutes ago, milky_26 said:

Just a feeling, some people even after having it explained to them will either forget our decide they don't need the second jab. Also if any get some sort of symptoms that look like covid19 they will be even more apprehensive about getting the second one. 

Every possibility I suppose.

My wife's pal who's a health worker has had her 1st covid jab already.

She always has a wee reaction like a sore arm after the Flu jab, but has had no reaction to this at all

[ri Alban]

2 hours ago, JamesM48 said:

I love the C word. It can now be used as a term of endearment as well as an insult.  Not many words can .  I recall a great story i read about Helen Mirren.  She was making a film in America and went to the film stage for the first day of shooting and she exclaimed " Good morning C**** " as a term of endearment. However since its the good old USA where irony does not insist her greeting went down like a lead balloon. They must have been shocked that a " lady" who had played the Queen would come out with language like that   

[Pasquale for King]

3 hours ago, Taffin said:

"Greece, similarly, has a nightly curfew, although its lockdown rules are far stricter. Under these restrictions, in place until 7 January, people must text a government number asking permission to leave their home."

 

😂😂

My friend lives on one of the islands, they went back into lockdown 6 weeks ago. They got a message from the prime minister asking them to use imaginative measure to keep their kids amused, but not to use the internet from 9am-5pm so that those working from home wouldnt struggle with the WiFi 🙈. 

[Pasquale for King]

15 hours ago, J.T.F.Robertson said:

 

Allow me to be first to offer my gratitude. 

Cheers 🍻 

[Pasquale for King]

2 hours ago, JamesM48 said:

I love the C word. It can now be used as a term of endearment as well as an insult.  Not many words can .  I recall a great story i read about Helen Mirren.  She was making a film in America and went to the film stage for the first day of shooting and she exclaimed " Good morning C**** " as a term of endearment. However since its the good old USA where irony does not insist her greeting went down like a lead balloon. They must have been shocked that a " lady" who had played the Queen would come out with language like that   

Always liked her. 
My mate comes from Wigan, now in Oz, but when he brought up other guys for a weekend they loved it when I called them “good Ku#+$”, one of them still says it every time I see him 😆. 

[Enzo Chiefo]

4 hours ago, jonesy said:

Hiding a bottle of the good stuff up the turkey's cavity in case the impending alcohol ban comes into force  

🤣. Seriously though, given the way this year has gone and with big bad alcohol being stigmatised, nothing would surprise me. The lunchtime Podium of Doom may well be used to announce a supermarket booze ban.

[GinRummy]

18 hours ago, Pasquale for King said:

Students are congregated in certain areas, they still live in other parts and come into contact with folk from those areas. Unless there has been info published of every person who has had it we won’t know. All I know is there has been more outbreaks in student groups that I know that any other demographic. They really shouldn’t have been allowed to come back, and shouldn’t be in the new year either. That’s their opinion anyway, and I agree. 

Somewhere on this thread you could find me expressing my utter amazement at them being allowed back. Seems the craziest decision both then and now. Young people are generally happier to take risks. Introducing huge numbers of them to the city was extremely dangerous. As I said yesterday, I can only give an opinion on it, can’t back it with facts. 

[GinRummy]

1 hour ago, Taffin said:

"It is not right to criminalise people who simply want to spend time with their loved ones," Johnson says

 

🤔🤔🤔

 

Have I picked up the rules incorrectly over the last 9 months...

 

 

 

Someone should produce a list of contradictory statements from that arsehole. Would be a lifetimes work. 

Edited December 16, 2020 by GinRummy

[Jambo-Jimbo]

1 hour ago, Brighton Jambo said:

Meanwhile South Korea has just announced its running out of intensive care beds in Seoul and it’s tracing system has been overwhelmed.  

 

Which just shows that some countries which did well in the first wave, some are now struggling this time around.

[Governor Tarkin]

4 minutes ago, Jambo-Jimbo said:

 

Which just shows that some countries which did well in the first wave, some are now struggling this time around.

 

No immunity within the population due to lack of exposure, mibbe. 

[JudyJudyJudy]

56 minutes ago, Pasquale for King said:

Always liked her. 
My mate comes from Wigan, now in Oz, but when he brought up other guys for a weekend they loved it when I called them “good Ku#+$”, one of them still says it every time I see him 😆. 

Yeah shes a great raconteur and actress . One of the great British acting ladies. 

[JudyJudyJudy]

59 minutes ago, Pasquale for King said:

Always liked her. 
My mate comes from Wigan, now in Oz, but when he brought up other guys for a weekend they loved it when I called them “good Ku#+$”, one of them still says it every time I see him 😆. 

Yes its a great descriptive word. Think the worse time I ever heard it was in the " Sopranos" when one of the most likable characters got whacked and  the killer called her that word.  That shocked me more than the whacking.  I wont identify who it was in case anyone hasn't seen the best tv show ever.  

[JudyJudyJudy]

22 minutes ago, Governor Tarkin said:

 

No immunity within the population due to lack of exposure, mibbe. 

YEP 

[willie wallace]

3 hours ago, redjambo said:

Latest per-100,000 case figures around the NHS boards:

 

Scotland 13 [-2].

 

Ayrshire 25 [+3], Borders 16 [+3],  Lothian 15 [-4], Tayside 15 [+6], Grampian 14 [-1], Lanarkshire 14 [-5], Fife 12 [-6], Forth Valley 10 [-3], Greater Glasgow 9 [-8].

 

The rest: less than 6.

Help needed here Red.

What does the Scotland 13 refer to compared to the individual boards numbers.

Apologies if I am missing the obvious😟

[indianajones]

Will be making the 120 mile drive to Edinburgh for a two week Christmas stay. 

 

According to some people this makes me akin to mass murderers and war criminals. 

 

Judge all ye want. 

[Jambo-Jimbo]

2 hours ago, Brian Dundas said:

In Scotland we had about 2500 deaths in the first wave, we are at about 1700 for wave two, in less than a month we will be overtaking wave one in deaths. 
 

We can’t get vaccinated quick enough!

 

A nice new stat to monitor is % of population vaccinated. 

 

Absolutely and the more the better it'll be for everyone.

 

I'm hearing that there is growing anger in the EU, especially in Germany that the EMA has not passed the Pfizer BioNtech vaccine yet, in fact they were due to hold a meeting NEXT week to look at the data, but under growing pressure they brought that meeting forward by 8 days and held it this week.

 

Euronews were saying that it could be next week before the EU approves it, but then there is a major hurdle, because there are next to no supplies available for the EU to roll out, as Britain, the US etc etc are getting almost all the supplies right now and it could be well into the New Year before the EU have any meaningful supplies of vaccine to distribute.

 

Sounds to me like the EU have missed the boat on this.

[Jambo-Jimbo]

35 minutes ago, Governor Tarkin said:

 

No immunity within the population due to lack of exposure, mibbe. 

 

Yes possible.

[redjambo]

3 minutes ago, willie wallace said:

Help needed here Red.

What does the Scotland 13 refer to compared to the individual boards numbers.

Apologies if I am missing the obvious😟

 

No probs, Willie. It's the nation-wide rate. So if you take the total number of new cases in the country reported today and work out the per-100,000 figure for that, then you come up with 13 (rounded to the nearest whole number).

 

689 new cases / 5,463,200 population of Scotland * 100,000 = 12.61

 

It can be thought of as the national average, if you like.

[redjambo]

2 minutes ago, Jambo-Jimbo said:

 

Absolutely and the more the better it'll be for everyone.

 

I'm hearing that there is growing anger in the EU, especially in Germany that the EMA has not passed the Pfizer BioNtech vaccine yet, in fact they were due to hold a meeting NEXT week to look at the data, but under growing pressure they brought that meeting forward by 8 days and held it this week.

 

Euronews were saying that it could be next week before the EU approves it, but then there is a major hurdle, because there are next to no supplies available for the EU to roll out, as Britain, the US etc etc are getting almost all the supplies right now and it could be well into the New Year before the EU have any meaningful supplies of vaccine to distribute.

 

Sounds to me like the EU have missed the boat on this.

 

FFS. Right from the start, that meeting should have been held "yesterday". You don't ***** about with stuff like this.

[coconut doug]

5 minutes ago, jonesy said:

The First Fuhrer's foot soldiers - the likes of JiH and CD - running around the streets on the 25th checking for folk with half a bottle of Pinot Grigio shoved up a turkey's arse. A new twist on 2020.

 

 I have absolutely no interest in what you stick up a turkey's arse but your frequent references to me and the strange allusions you make about me should be concerning you.